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* VillainRespect: Jack is consistently polite to Verge and seems to enjoy their conversations, even bidding farewell to him with a handshake. However, this mostly comes from him idolizing Verge [[spoiler:(aka Creator/Virgil)]] as an artist, rather than respecting him as an actual person.
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* VillainRespect: Jack is consistently polite to Verge and seems to enjoy their conversations, even bidding farewell to him with a handshake. However, this mostly comes from him idolizing Verge [[spoiler:(aka Creator/Virgil)]] Creator/{{Virgil}})]] as an artist, rather than respecting him as an actual person.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Jack not only dies in his own freezer, but ends up falling into the ninth circle of Hell while [[DirtyCoward trying to make an escape]].]]
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* AuthorAvatar: Jack himself represents the worst aspects of Creator/LarsVonTrier and is meant to be a self-critique on the director's own works and attitudes towards violence, sex, and women.
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* AuthorAvatar: Jack himself represents the worst aspects of Creator/LarsVonTrier Creator/LarsVonTrier, and is meant to be a self-critique on the director's own works and works, including his attitudes towards violence, sex, and women.
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* AssholeVictim: The first incident, due to the woman acting like an abrasive bitch who kept just mocking and egging Jack on before he finally snapped.
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* AssholeVictim: The AssholeVictim:
** Downplayed with firstincident, due to the incident. The woman acting in the segment behaves like an abrasive bitch {{Jerkass}} who kept just mocking repeatedly mocks, taunts, and egging pushes Jack to a RageBreakingPoint, despite the fact that [[UngratefulBastard he gave her a ride with no ulterior motives]]. Despite even Verge admitting that she was "insufferable", he points out that being rude is no reason to ''[[DisproportionateRetribution murder]]'' someone.
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Jack himself at the end, as he's sent plummeting into the depths of hell as the result of his own horrific actions and sheer cowardice.]]
* AuthorAvatar: Jack himself represents the worst aspects of Creator/LarsVonTrier and is meant to be a self-critique onbefore he finally snapped.the director's own works and attitudes towards violence, sex, and women.
* AxCrazy: Fitting for a SerialKiller, Jack, despite his claims of being an "artist", is clearly a violent lunatic who will kill people for the pettiest of reasons.
** Downplayed with first
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Jack himself at the end, as he's sent plummeting into the depths of hell as the result of his own horrific actions and sheer cowardice.]]
* AuthorAvatar: Jack himself represents the worst aspects of Creator/LarsVonTrier and is meant to be a self-critique on
* AxCrazy: Fitting for a SerialKiller, Jack, despite his claims of being an "artist", is clearly a violent lunatic who will kill people for the pettiest of reasons.
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* ClimbSlipHangClimb: Jack when trying to pass the chasm in the underworld. It doesn't end well.
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* ClimbSlipHangClimb: Jack [[spoiler:Jack when trying to pass the chasm in the underworld. It doesn't end well.]]
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* DehumanizingInsult: Jack takes to demean Jacqueline for being what he considers a DumbBlonde by referring to her with the derisive nickname "Simple".
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* DehumanizingInsult: DehumanizingInsult:
** Jack takes to demean Jacqueline for being what he considers a DumbBlonde by referring to her with the derisive nickname"Simple"."Simple".
** Verge, enraged by Jack's inhumanity, calls him an "antichrist".
** Jack takes to demean Jacqueline for being what he considers a DumbBlonde by referring to her with the derisive nickname
** Verge, enraged by Jack's inhumanity, calls him an "antichrist".
* DirtyCoward: Jack primarily goes after people who are weaker than him and lives in constant fear of being apprehended. [[spoiler:When finally sent to Hell for his crimes, he risks his soul to try and escape his punishment.]]
* DomesticAbuse: The fourth incident sees Jack in a toxic relationship with a woman named Jacqueline, who he verbally and psychologically abuses on a routine basis. He even goes out of his way to nickname her [[DehumanizingInsult "Simple"]] to insult her intelligence.
* EvilIsPetty: Jack will murder people for minor slights such as being rude to him, or simply [[StrawMisogynist being a woman]].
* {{Jerkass}}:
** [[VillainProtagonist Jack]], aside from being a SerialKiller, is also just an insufferable, pretentious, and misogynistic asshole that practically nobody can stand to be around.
** The woman in the first incident, who is unnecessarily rude and demeaning towards Jack after he gives her a free ride to a mechanic.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In the first incident, Jack is presented as a gruff, antisocial man, who nonetheless gives a woman a ride to a mechanic for no personal gain. [[AxCrazy He ends the segment by murdering her.]]
** [[VillainProtagonist Jack]], aside from being a SerialKiller, is also just an insufferable, pretentious, and misogynistic asshole that practically nobody can stand to be around.
** The woman in the first incident, who is unnecessarily rude and demeaning towards Jack after he gives her a free ride to a mechanic.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In the first incident, Jack is presented as a gruff, antisocial man, who nonetheless gives a woman a ride to a mechanic for no personal gain. [[AxCrazy He ends the segment by murdering her.]]
* KickTheDog: Practically everything Jack does could qualify, but two examples stand out:
** [[spoiler:In the third incident, Jack murders two children and forces their mother to sit down on a picnic blanket and "feed" their corpses.]]
** [[DomesticAbuse His treatment of Jacqueline]] throughout the fourth incident is just psychologically cruel and demeaning, seemingly just because he enjoys being having a verbal punching bag.
** [[spoiler:In the third incident, Jack murders two children and forces their mother to sit down on a picnic blanket and "feed" their corpses.]]
** [[DomesticAbuse His treatment of Jacqueline]] throughout the fourth incident is just psychologically cruel and demeaning, seemingly just because he enjoys being having a verbal punching bag.
* NightmareFetishist: Jack considers genocidal dictators and mass murderers to be examples of great "artists", much to Verge's disgust.
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* OneHitPolykill: Jack attempts this with his rifle and a couple of victims in the freezer but he never gets around to finishing the experiment.
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* OneHitPolykill: Jack attempts this with his rifle and a couple of six victims in the freezer but freezer, [[spoiler:but he never gets around to finishing the experiment.experiment]].
* PetTheDog: The first incident sees Jack give a woman who is stranded on the side of the road a free ride to a mechanic. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the end when he bashes her skull in, and he only gets worse from there.
* RageBreakingPoint:
** The first incident shows Jack being repeatedly insulted and mocked by a woman for no apparent reason after he helps her out. After one too many jabs, Jack bashes her skull in with a tire jack.
** Verge, fed up with Jack's delusions of grandeur, tears into him by calling him an "antichrist" and saying that [[EveryoneHasStandards he is one of the worst human beings he's ever had to escort]].
** The first incident shows Jack being repeatedly insulted and mocked by a woman for no apparent reason after he helps her out. After one too many jabs, Jack bashes her skull in with a tire jack.
** Verge, fed up with Jack's delusions of grandeur, tears into him by calling him an "antichrist" and saying that [[EveryoneHasStandards he is one of the worst human beings he's ever had to escort]].
* {{Sadist}}: Jack. He's a SerialKiller who views his murders as "art" and takes great pleasure in performing his work.
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** How Jack views his victims. Verge argues that he intentionally picks out these kinds of people or [[UnreliableNarrator makes them look stupider in his recollections than they actually are]].
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** How Jack views his victims. Verge argues that he intentionally picks out these kinds of people or [[UnreliableNarrator makes them look stupider dumber in his recollections than they actually are]].
* VillainRespect: Jack is consistently polite to Verge and seems to enjoy their conversations, even bidding farewell to him with a handshake. However, this mostly comes from him idolizing Verge [[spoiler:(aka Creator/Virgil)]] as an artist, rather than respecting him as an actual person.
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* WickedCultured: Jack has shades of this, having an affinity for Glenn Gould, Roman/Greek/German architecture and famous pieces of literature from such authors as William Blake. However, in reality, he's closer to WickedPretentious, coming across to Verge like he's trying to impress him.
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* WickedCultured: Jack has shades of ''believes'' he's this, having an affinity for Glenn Gould, Roman/Greek/German architecture architecture, and famous pieces of literature from such authors as William Blake. However, in reality, he's closer to WickedPretentious, coming across to Verge like he's trying to impress him.
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* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of the commentary Verge delivers on Jack's stories and asides is quite dry and sarcastic.
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* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of the commentary Verge delivers on Jack's stories and asides is quite dry and sarcastic. He spends a good chunk of time subtly mocking Jack and his overinflated sense of self-importance.
* HypocriticalHumor: A rather dark example. Jack complains to Jacqueline about how men are perceived as bad by women and society at large. This, mind you, is while he is holding her at knifepoint after previously confessing that he's killed 60 people.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: (Averted) While Jack does lacks empathy, he is not insane in the traditional sense. Unlike most other serial killers on screen Jack is lucid and fully aware of what he is doing, which makes his crimes all the more heinous.
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* StupidEvil: A lot of Jack's failures as a serial killer come from him trying to be as unconscionable as possible and trying to make his murders into works of art. By the end, he leaves a trail of bodies behind and has an outburst at the gun store owner for giving him the wrong bullet, which leads the police directly to him. [[spoiler:He only gets away because Verge escorted him to Hell.]]
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* StupidEvil: A lot of Jack's failures as a serial killer come from him trying to be as unconscionable as possible and trying to make his murders into works of art. By the end, he leaves a trail of bodies behind and has an outburst at the gun store owner for giving him the wrong bullet, which leads the police directly to him. [[spoiler:He only gets away because Verge escorted him to Hell.]]
